(WBUR.org) At this point, the only pop-cultural event that could possibly upstage Jay-Z's new album, The Blueprint III, is Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol. But if Brown thinks he has the market cornered on Freemasonry and the occult, he had better watch his back. Mitch Horowitz, author of American Occult says that Jay-Z has a keen grasp of certain esoterica, especially in the music video for his new single, "Run This Town." -- Get the whole story

(BeliefNet) In the Jung thread below, one commenter warned that Jung was a profound enemy of Christianity, and recommended reading Dr. Jeffrey Satinover on this point. Satinover is a psychiatrist and physicist who was the youngest graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He is also past president of the Jung Society in New York. As it happens, I went upstairs this afternoon to search through my bookshelves for Jung's book "Modern Man in Search of a Soul," which a friend gave to me when I was in college, but which I'd never read. -- Read more